This fusion of East and West was the beginning of Western civilization.
A Chinese proverb compares a pupil who excels his teacher to the color green, which originates with blue but is superior to it.

This may aptly be applied to Westerners, for they originally learned literature, science, and other arts from the East; but they have proven apt pupils and have excelled their old masters.

I wish I could find an apothegm concerning a former master who went back to school and surpassed his clever pupil.

The non-existence of such a maxim probably indicates that no such case has as yet occurred, but that by no means proves that it never will.
Coming now to particulars I would say that one of the distinguishing features in the American people which I much admire is their earnestness and perseverance.

When they decide to take up anything, whether it be an invention or the investigation of a difficult problem, they display indomitable perseverance and patience.